open mirror
interaction and sound
Open Mirror is an oval-shaped mirror providing a different way of listening to music and new sensations of light, sound and gestures. The hidden secret of Open Mirror is represented by an advanced gestural interface with sensors that detect the movements of the hand and allow controlling your music without touching the phone. Slide the mirror open to reveal a docking station and a light illuminating the area where sensors are active.
THE MAKING OF
The charm of making
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"Open Mirror is one of the top 10 Technology connected and interactive products that optimize your home."
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"The Milan studio Digital Habits has engineered the first interactive product open to the community."
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"Digital Habits designs and engineers super gadgets that simplify and beautify your high-tech home."
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"Never before has such incredible technological innovation been so close to our grasp [...] The result is pure, minimalistic contemporary design [...] the future within research"
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"Open mirror è progettato con l'idea di fornire una nuova esperienza attorno all'ascolto della musica, derivata dall'ibridazione di un prodotto analogico tradizionale con l'elettronica, la manifattura digitale e la produzione customizzabile"
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"The team of Digital Habits have designed and built one of the most beautiful and amazing devices which is then controlled by various hand movements"
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"Who doesn't like to listen to music when they're getting ready? Well now Digital Habit(s) just made it a whole lot easier with Open Mirror."
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"The Open Mirror may look like a traditional oval mirror, but it boasts a simple tweak that takes it from ordinary to extraordinary. It might not tell the person using it if they are the fairest one of all, but it will play their favorite music and provide some extra light to boot."
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"A mirror to hear the music, it connects to your iPhone or iPod and can be controlled by natural gestures even without touching the screen. That's because it is set up with an advanced sensors based interface. Open Mirror can be controlled by hand movements and let the User make basic interactions with the music or video player of compatible devices."
Place and remove
your hand under
sensor A
swipe your hand
between sensors
B to C
Place and hold
your hand under
sensors C and B
3.5'' Speaker low/mid
range and 2" tweeter
PHYSICAL COMPUTING GIVES A NEW APPROACH TO THE DISCIPLINE OF HCI (HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION). PEOPLE ARE MORE SKILLED IN MOVING THEIR BODYS OR HANDS IN THE SPACE THAN GRASPING MOUSE OR KEYBOARDS. NATURAL GESTURE IS A WAY OF GIVING INPUTS THAT ALREADY HUMANS KNOW BY THEIR COMMON EXPERIENCE. THE SENSORS DETECT HUMAN GESTURES AND THE SOFTWARE INTERPRETS AND DECODES THEIR COMPLEXITY, TRANSFORMING THEM IN ALGORITHMS WHICH GENERATE A CONSISTENT OUTPUT USING ACTUATORS. OPENMIRROR CAN BE CONTROLLED BY HAND MOVEMENTS AND LET THE USER MAKE BASIC INTERACTION.
